Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to go see someone often. It is not
Speaker 1: that challenging to take a short trip to see a
Speaker 1: friend or relative. Doing so can make life feel a
Speaker 1: lot more fulfilling, So, especially as life gets busy, it
Speaker 1: can be easy to default to whatever leisure activities are
Speaker 1: right in front of us. We spend a Saturday shuttling
Speaker 1: family members places or buying groceries and watching TV, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with any of these things. But many
Speaker 1: people claim they would love to spend more time with
Speaker 1: friends or extended family members, and they just feel too
Speaker 1: busy to do so. This is particularly true when many
Speaker 1: friends and family members don't live in the same town.
Speaker 1: But if someone lives within two hours of you by
Speaker 1: car or by train, it would be quite possible to
Speaker 1: visit for a few hours on the weekend without it
Speaker 1: becoming a huge ordeal. If you live in one of
Speaker 1: the markets that is serviced by a low cost airline,
Speaker 1: you might even be able to fly to see someone.
Speaker 1: You could stay overnight, but you might not even have to.
Speaker 1: I have been thinking of this lately because I have
Speaker 1: been taking a lot of speaking trips. Often for these,
Speaker 1: I can fly in and out relatively quickly. I live
Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia area, and I have been able to
Speaker 1: fly in and out in one day to all sorts
Speaker 1: of places, including Florida, Saint Louis, Chicago, Nashville, even Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Add in one night's stay somewhere, and I've been able
Speaker 1: to get as far afield as Phoenix and places like that.
Speaker 1: When I was flying down to Florida to visit someone
Speaker 1: not that long ago, I found that Frontier Airlines was
Speaker 1: offering tickets for as low as nineteen dollars. Now, since
Speaker 1: I needed to bring a bag, I wound up paying more.
Speaker 1: But if you were just going down for a few hours,
Speaker 1: it could wind up being a fairly inexpensive day. In
Speaker 1: early April, I took some off peak trains in and
Speaker 1: out of New York and was able to see friends
Speaker 1: there for not a whole lot of time and money.
Speaker 1: Driving opens up possibilities too. If you know people who
Speaker 1: live two hours away or so, that is very doable
Speaker 1: to go for an early dinner on a weekend day
Speaker 1: and come home afterwards. No need to pack bags. Of course,
Speaker 1: it is always easier not to spend time in transit.
Speaker 1: But the truth is that you will do something on
Speaker 1: the weekend. If you spend a little bit of time
Speaker 1: thinking about it and reach out to people you know
Speaker 1: and want to see, it is quite possible that you
Speaker 1: will be able to fit in something a little more
Speaker 1: interesting than grocery shopping. Now, I know that everyone is
Speaker 1: working hard, and everyone is working long. Often we get
Speaker 1: to the weekend and we just want to relax. So
Speaker 1: know that I am not talking about flying to Florida
Speaker 1: every weekend. But what if you aim to go visit
Speaker 1: someone every four to six weeks or so. That leaves
Speaker 1: lots of weekends for local pursuits or relaxing, But you
Speaker 1: would also be able to visit friends eight to thirteen
Speaker 1: times over the course of the year. That is a
Speaker 1: fair amount. It might help to think of people in
Speaker 1: your life who you genuinely like but don't see as
Speaker 1: often as you would want to, who lives relatively nearby.
Speaker 1: You can look at your calendar for the next few
Speaker 1: months and engineer a weekend day to be fairly free.
Speaker 1: Reach out and let people know you would like to
Speaker 1: come see them. People often won't invite someone who lives
Speaker 1: far away, as they assume they won't be able to come.
Speaker 1: But if you let it be known that you will come,
Speaker 1: you can certainly come up with a good reason offer
Speaker 1: to pick up something to eat on the way there.
Speaker 1: But if you are willing to travel, people will often
Speaker 1: be quite open to just having you. The good news
Speaker 1: is that if you go visit a far flung friend
Speaker 1: over the weekend, you won't get to Monday and think
Speaker 1: where did the weekend go? You will have truly enjoyed
Speaker 1: yourself and created some great memories. And it's only a day.
Speaker 1: My guess is that you will still get to the
Speaker 1: grocery shopping and you will feel more rejuvenated than if
Speaker 1: you just sat around trying to do nothing. So why
Speaker 1: not make a few plans. I'd love to hear how
Speaker 1: it goes. You can reach me at Laura at Laura
Speaker 1: vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our times.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,
Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
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